Piracy

[Vishera]

Piracy is the act of obtaining virtual or physical goods through illegal means.

If you buy a game,download it through steam and then crack it for your own use - That's not piracy since you obtained the game through legal means (bought and downloaded through steam).

 

As for adblocking we are not obtaining goods through illegal means here - So it's not piracy.

After all you get the content straight from the website itself,so you it's completely legal.

The existence of Vanced is legally problematic,though that falls on the owner of Vanced and not the user,therefore it's not piracy but a gray area.

[WhitetailAni]

On 4/13/2022 at 5:54 PM, Wictorian said:

I wanna know what you think is piracy and whatnot.

The collection of AppleInternal things

[kumicota]

I myself follows more of a copyleft way of thinking, so I don't think that piracy is something immoral or illegal. I am supportive to it but at the same time I also support supporting the content creators who created the content.

 

People often see that people who embraces piracy are people who doens't generate content but there's a lot of examples of people who generates a lot of content and are ok with it. A few examples are Paulo Coelho, Loop Hero dev, Hotline Miami dev, David Guetta and more.

 

I personally think that the copyright/patent industry did more harm to people than the piracy itself.

 

On 4/13/2022 at 8:17 PM, mariushm said:

using something for which you have no rights to use or in a way you're not authorized

if you use this for defining piracy, then emulation, homebrewing, jailbreaking is considered piracy too as all console companies says that they do not approve the use of emulators.

 

 

[mariushm]

4 minutes ago, kumicota said:

if you use this for defining piracy, then emulation, homebrewing, jailbreaking is considered piracy too as all console companies says that they do not approve the use of emulators.

emulation : software that emulates a cpu or a console I consider legal  what companies say doesn't matter, it's what laws say that matter.

emulating a game : i consider it acceptable if you own a legitimate copy of the game

 

jailbreaking :  I consider it acceptable, you didn't lease or rent the hardware for a subscription fee, you bought the hardware. It's yours to do whatever you want, at your own risk (would consider acceptable for you to lose warranty if you jailbreak something)

What you do AFTER jailbreaking may or may not be legal - writing your own software or installing free games I see as perfectly fine and acceptable. Running cracked games, that you didn't buy, I consider illegal.

 

 

[kumicota]

On 4/13/2022 at 8:06 PM, Wictorian said:

How do you even pirate music?

There's still a relatively big market for that, there's people that likes to listen music in flac and because streaming sites doesn't offer flac like quality to listen. They usually rip CD's when they can or pirate it when they can't find one(older CD's or countries that it doesn't have it)